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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:04 AM

The WPF DataGrid is finally here!!!

Well, their is a huge hype surrounding the release of .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 & Visual Studio 2008 SP1 ! The one release that has silently gone unnoticed is the release of the WPF DataGrid (CTP) The binaries and source is available for download here Here is a list of some of the features: Auto-generation of Columns. Simply hook up the DataGrid to an ItemsSource and at runtime it will auto-populate with variety of pre-built column types. You can also hook into column generation events to modify...
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:26 PM

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta br0ke my LINQ-to-SQL

As indicated in my previous article , I recently reinstalled my PC... One of the "updates" I made was installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta! Well... As Murphy would have it... I needed to change some stuff on a older project I have been working on. I opened the project, and I needed to update some of my LINQ-2-SQL entities just to find I can't open LINQ or compile my application! Here is the error message I received: The custom tool 'MSLinqToSQLGenerator' failed.  Could...
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Monday, June 02, 2008 10:11 AM

My WPF Build Environment

Setting up your WPF build environment can be a tedious exercise. this weekend, I re-formatted my build PC... here is what I installed to get it up and running again: Operating System Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 All my laptop's drivers (Downloaded newest version from web) Run Windows Updated and install all the available updates Development Software Visual Studio 2008 Professional Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview (Build number MUST be 2.1.1113.0 or better) Windows SDK (Also read Installing...
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